Missouri Senator Roy Blunt's office said the Kansas City VA confirmed to him it had an unauthorized waiting list containing the name of 37 veterans, all of them heart patients.

On Friday, veterans told Mahoney that they think they get good treatment at the VA, but they also said the VA has problems, and that a house cleaning was in order.

"If you don't have enough people to service the people, then you need to hire more people," 20-year Navy veteran Cynthia Williams said. "And if the people that are there are incompetent, you need to get rid of them anyway."

The VA is now authorizing the medical center to give vets vouchers so they can see a private doctor or therapist for treatment if the VA center can't fit them in.

"I think they're going to have to do something on it because they're getting more and more vets coming back who are going to need help," said Vietnam veteran Dean Masters.